I dunno what to write…how to write…too many things happening…life taking turns…making you face situations you never anticipated…bringing you so close to the harsh realities…

Motu is a dear friend…both of us have too many things in common…both of us relate to the shape “round”, both of us end up showing our batteesee (32 teeth) most of the times…both of us are BIG time foodies…just too many to mention…that’s the reason we call each other motu sisters!! The phase of your life when everything seems to just go wrong, even that phase was going parallel for us…somewhere things were taking a “slight” positive turn for me and I wished the same for motu. The sudden realization that the parallel track of two people taking different directions is not-so-pleasant…

Motu’s mom was suddenly diagnosed with a serious disease; the shock was big enuff to handle. The responsibility of taking decisions, arranging things, meeting docs, deciding hospitals is not-so-easy-a-task! I was with motu at the day of surgery, so were some other friends. Hospitals are depressing…completely depressing…but then that is the only option at times…sending your mum to the operation theater with a smile so that she gets the strength to fight-it-out, inspite of the fact that you are crying inside takes a lot of guts…I saw motu doing all that…I saw her breaking down at times but at the same time I also saw her pulling herself up and fighting it out. All I could do was to be there…with her…I could actually realize how much it means to be there when someone needs you…

The ordeal of passing each and every minute…every second till the surgery was complete had exhausted Motu and her family…emotionally, mentally, physically…her wet eyes, her fading smile…had put me to thought…presence of our parents mean so much…its’ so difficult to see them go though the pain…money becomes the necessary evil of our lives at times…friends mean so much…testing times can knock anyone’s door, anytime…!!!

When I was witnessing this whole thing…I just thought about the times I had hurt my aai baba, at times intentionally, unintentionally at other times…somewhere down it pinched my heart so much…all I can wish is not to repeat them ever again…

Motu has seen one of the hardest times of her life, and I also know that she’s strong enough to handle “everything”. I always believe that God puts testing times on the ones who can have the courage to face it, handle it. We need to take such times as an opportunity to find out the people who are actually there when we need them.

Motu, m always gonna be with you…just a call away…I love you…aunty’s gonna be fine…and as I say…achche logon ke saath achcha hi hota hai (good happens to ggod people)…waiting to see that smile and twinkle in your eyes again…!!!

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She is standing at crossroads…confused, amused, angry, upset at the turn of events…she never wanted it this way…all she feels is helpless with the situations…how can one become so much a slave in front of situations!? Why can’t good happen to everyone!? Why can’t things go right with everyone!?

But then that’s the way it is…one just falls a prey to circumstances…that one had never thought of…never anticipated…and beauty is in the way one comes out of it…dealing it…facing it…and winning over it…!!

Gone...

There he comes…
And stands in front of her…
They meet…
They talk…
And she falls in love…
He goes back…
She waits for him to come…
And take her away…
She waits…
and she waits….
But he never comes back…
He was gone…with his love…
All she feels now is amused!
Why can’t she be like her…
Why couldn’t he love her…
But then not all questions have answers…
Like all deserts don’t have showers…
All she feels now is amused…

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What am I doing with what I have…!?
Its’ ironical when I see people who have less n’ who do much more…

Only this thought bugged me when I met this chap called Charudutta Jadhav. Let me tell you he’s a programming geek, an expert of C, C++, VC++, Java, ORACLE, VB, .NET…and he’s visually challenged!! I had gone to meet him with a couple of friends so that he and his employer can meet the management of our company, talk to them and remove their apprehensions regarding recruitment of differently able people…!! During the meeting all that I learnt was how optimistic a person can be…this guy worked in a bank for 12 years! He gave exams for promotion every year but was rejected ‘coz of his disability inspite of his clearing exams each time…he finally resigned and happened to get a chance in this company called GTL whose VP believed in him and gave him a chance…inspite of holding a Masters in Economics, Charudutta had tried his hands on coding out of mere curiosity and interest…and that’s the reason he has gained such expertise on so many technologies in a span of six years…!!!

He’s working as a Project Manager of the RnD dept. of his company…and to add another feather in his cap, he used his knowledge of chess (he’s playing chess for the past 22 years and is a national Champ) and expertise in coding, and developed a CHESS game at par with the World’s best chess game with special features or the visually challenged and launched it with the minimum possible price so that people can afford it!! He gave a demo of this game and all I can say is FANTABULOUS!!!!

His aim is to develop utilities for visually challenged people which are affordable and can be used by them easily. Currently he’s working on a project to develop a counterpart of JAWS (in short, JAWS is the s/w through which visually challenged people can use computers independently) called Screen Reader that he’ll be launching at almost 1/10th price of that of JAWS.

Happened to write all this ‘coz I just received the news that Charu Datta Jadhav is getting the Best Employee of the Year Award by the honorable President of India on 4th December!! I was so happy after getting this news and wanted to share it to as many people as possible…so thought of putting it up over here…

Each one of us is gifted with some trait or the other to serve the world in our own way…we just need to find it and use it…guys like Charudutta are exceptions but they make you believe that challenges can always be triumphed…however big they are…